Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism

> why do authors and musicians (indivduals and their respective unions) continue to insist on royalties instead of insisting on being salaried or negotiating a fair hourly rate or flat fee contract?

Ah, but they do becomes salaried/flat-fee contract workers! They're called session musicians and music writers, and they work at the creative director's behest for the project they're working on. When it comes to musicians writing their own music for their own sake, where the musician (or group of) themselves is the creative director, they're going to have quite the difficult time convincing a record label to hand them over a salary!

It's the chokepoint on creativity that this article is describing, not a chokepoint on talent alone.